Stomping As They Climb in Jordans

There’s conversation, and then there’s The Conversation. One is small talk, the other big. One is how people speak when they don’t care who’s listening, and one is how people publicly perform their commitment not so much to being ethical as to being current — and, if at all possible, profitable. Ife Olujobi is out to skewer both in her new play, Jordans, a satire with a skewed, nightmarish edge. As such, Jordans joins a long, rich tradition, one that has been particularly vigorous in recent years.